A quick historical and biographical guide to
revolutions in scientific knowledge.
| periods | cultural changes | scientific revolutions |
| Medieval | algebraic numbers | great titration (Hindu, Sinic, Arab) |
| calendar | Copernican conjecture | |
| Renaissance | instruments | Astronomy - macrocosm |
| perspective | Cartesian | |
| Enlightenment | experimentation | Geology & Biology - microcosm |
| calculus | Rational Empiricism | |
| Modern | electricity (chemistry) | Atomic theory of matter |
| therapuetics | Natural Selection | |
| post-modern | telecommunications | Radiation and genetics |
| Scientific revolutionaries |
| Events | People | dates |
| great titration (Hindu, Sinic, Arab) | Al Gebir, Su Tsing, | 800 - 1453 |
| Copernican conjecture | Nicholas Copernicus | 1543 |
| Astronomy - macrocosm | Brahe, Kepler, Galileo | 1580 -1635 |
| Cartesian mathematics | Descartes, Fermat, | 1640 - 1750 |
| Geology & Biology - microcosm | DaVinci, Vesalius, von Linne | 1500 - 1800 |
| Rational Empiricism | Newton, Leibniz, Boyle | 1687 - 1789 |
| Atomic theory of matter | Lavoisier, Dalton, Mendeleev | 1750 - 1865 |
| Natural Selection | Lamark, Darwin, Wallace | 1800 - 1880 |
| Radiation and genetics | Curie, Einstein, Feynman, Watson | 1905 - 1970 |
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